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'I Will Always Love You': Jada Star’s musical bond with her aunt Dolly Parton
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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What's it like being related to someone super famous? Like… Dolly Parton! Singer-songwriter Jada Star talks about shining bright in her aunt Dolly’...

Bought by WUOT 91.9 FM


  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Top 4 Solutions to Global Warming
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jurriaan Kamp
Solutions journalism. I’d never come across that term before. That is, before I came into contact with Jurriaan Kamp, and his multitude of projects...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean Plastics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Seth Blaustein
Massive wildfires, flooding and natural disasters: It’s obvious to most observers now that climate change is no hoax. But, most of us feel that the...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
New Caribbean Cinema
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fall 2020 Student Edition
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In this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami student Luz Estrella Cruz makes her way to the Third Horizon Film Fes...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 11:51
Subtle Acts of Exclusion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Michael Baran
Many have heard the term micro aggression, but not everyone fully understands what they are or how to recognize them. Not to mention how to stop th...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
That's It!
From: New Letters on the Air
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THAT'S IT!--A special program looking back on the career of longtime NEW LETTERS editor Robert Stewart. In this public reading, Albert Goldbarth, J...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
In Defense of Public Service
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cedric Alexander
The folks who do the behind-the-scenes work that keeps our country running have been frequently disparaged by the Trump administration. The “Deep S...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
CYJO on the Complexities of Photographing Identity
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Miami-based Korean American visual artist CYJO takes us to discover exceptional work in the photographic medium at the Art Basel Miami Beach art fa...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 25:13
Vote for Us
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joshua A. Douglas
Imagine an election in the future that boasted turnout at record levels. Better access to voter registration and polling places. District lines and...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: May 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Race and Social Change
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Max Klau
Recent events in America have once again turned the spotlight on the issues of race. Just when we think we are overcoming our racial divide, anothe...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KVSC, and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Building Power Through Media: Radio Kingston and DeRay Mckesson
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week, we re-visit radio Kingston, a station connecting communities and lifting up voices. Than joining Laura in studio, activist DeRay Mckesso...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Joe Ward Midnight Rider
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of the live feed we visit with Joe Ward during Boats and Bluegrass of 2016. We discuss performing, the bands achievements and his i...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 36:17
Daring Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frances Moore Lappé
Some feel the election of Donald Trump is a signal that people want change. Others see it as a culmination of a decades long effort to destabilize ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Moral Revolution: Tom Shadyac Part 2 #202 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Hollywood director Tom Shadyac traded a mansion and private jets for a mobile home and a bicycle. He had found the traditional trappings of success...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
#33 MIW Lisa Chacon - Co-Founder at Impact Hub Oakland
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Lisa Chacon on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, life coach and your show host, this episode of Making it Work, we will chat with one of the co-founders of the innovative w...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2015
  • Length: 23:18
Getting Lost with Radiolab
From: Hold That Thought
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Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich on what it means to be curious and what it takes to make Radiolab

  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 33:30
Simmer 4: Citizen, Not Consumer
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Simmer
Caption: Yams simmering for fufu in Togo, West Africa, Credit: Carla Seidl
The fourth Simmer episode features the second part of the documentary "Telling Our Own Stories: Wally Bowen on Creating a Democratic Media," plus a...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
Telling Our Own Stories: Wally Bowen on Creating a Democratic Media
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: Wally Bowen
Documentary on the life and work of media reform activist Wally Bowen, founder and executive director of the Mountain Area Information Network (MAI...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 47:43
Studs Terkel: A Heart as Big as the World
From: A World of Possibilities
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Despite his best efforts, like the very establishments he excoriated, Studs Terkel became an American institution. A man of the people, he was also...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WZEN.org, KBGA 89.9 FM, WDSE and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 11
JazzStories: Percy Heath
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"There’s a certain thing on the bandstand that every now and then – not every night, not every composition – there comes a point when the collectiv...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 15:31
  • Purchases: 5
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Baseball Hall of Fame Broadcaster Dave Niehaus
From: KUOW
Series: Sound Focus
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A conversation with Seattle Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus, newly inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame KRAK

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Jul 30, 2008
  • Length: 12:10
  • Purchases: 1